Finding a New Midwestern History
eBook - ePub

Finding a New Midwestern History

  1. 396 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Finding a New Midwestern History

About this book

In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never really ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as afield of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.

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Yes, you can access Finding a New Midwestern History by Jon K. Lauck,Gleaves Whitney,Joseph Hogan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Tables
  8. Introductiony
  9. Part 1
  10. 1. The Birth of the Midwest and the Rise of Regional Theory
  11. 2. How Nature and Culture Shaped Early Settlement in the Midwest
  12. 3. First Cousins
  13. Part 2
  14. 4. Native Americans and Midwestern History
  15. 5. American and European Immigrant Groups in the Midwest by the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  16. 6. Civic Life in a Midwestern Community
  17. 7. Politics in the Promised Land
  18. Part 3
  19. 8. Midwestern Small Towns
  20. 9. The Agrarian Midwest
  21. 10. The Role of Sports in the Midwest
  22. Part 4
  23. 11. The View from the River
  24. 12. The Midwest’s Spiritual Landscapes
  25. 13. The Development of Midwestern Cities
  26. Part 5
  27. 14. Of Murals and Mirrors
  28. 15. Midwestern Intellectuals
  29. 16. Midwestern Musicians
  30. 17. Midwestern Writers
  31. Part 6
  32. 18. The Upper Midwest as the Second Promised Land
  33. 19. Growing Up Midwestern
  34. 20. The Best of Babbitt
  35. 21. Of Conformity and Cosmopolitanism
  36. List of Contributors
  37. Index
  38. About Jon K. Lauck
  39. About Gleaves Whitney
  40. About Joseph Hogan